Pandemics and economics, what’s different this time?

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Speaker: Dr. Sridhar Venkatapuram Abstract: In this talk, I aim to introduce an audience of economists, particularly health economists, about the relevance and practicability of a moral right to the capability to be healthy. I will start with summarizing two publications from the late 1990s- the 1998 World Bank report called Confronting AIDS-public priorities in …

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Martin Guzman and Rob Johnson | Argentina’s Debt Resolution

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POSTPONED New dates will be announced shortly. On 28 January after 19 months of tense negotiations, Argentina and the IMF agreed to restructure $44.5bn of sovereign debt. In this webinar we will analyze the recent breakthrough agreement between Argentina and the IMF and its implications for the international sovereign debt restructuring process. In a major …

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How might we co-create Economics curriculum reform in an African context?

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Today’s economies reproduce, and often worsen, vast and harmful inequalities between people and countries. These inequalities are often inextricably bound up with historical violence and oppression. Human economic activity is also unsustainable, fuelling global heating and destruction of the living world, which will make large parts of the earth uninhabitable, and already causes untold damage …

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The New Lombard Street | Session 2

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This is the second of three sessions on Perry Mehrling's 2011 book The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort https://www.amazon.com/Money-Interest-Public-American-1920-1970/dp/0674584309/ In this book, Mehrling applies his Money View framework to interpret the history of the Fed and to make sense of the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. Walter Bagehot's …

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Working Group Mandate Brainstorming

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Hello fellow WG members! We are having a meeting this Saturday at 10 GMT to discuss the new mandate for our working group! All members welcome. No need to prepare anything just bring yourself and your interests - we can exchange ideas, share proposals which will be used to write a mandate for the WG. …

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Session-1: Decolonizing Economic Methodology Reading Group

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This reading group aims at exploring how the perspective of the postcolonial scholarship could open up new approaches to philosophy of economics/economic methodology. Our endeavor is inspired by the vibrant discussion on the need, possibility and promise of decolonizing economics. Once a month we will read and meet online to discuss a selection of chapters …

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The New Lombard Street | Session 3

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This is the last of three sessions on Perry Mehrling's 2011 book The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort https://www.amazon.com/Money-Interest-Public-American-1920-1970/dp/0674584309/ In this book, Mehrling applies his Money View framework to interpret the history of the Fed and to make sense of the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. Walter Bagehot's …

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Building the EU Primary Dealer System – Interview with Siegfried Ruhl

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About the Speaker: Siegfried Ruhl is Head of Funding & Investor Relations at the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). He is responsible for the management of €300 billion of outstanding debt with more than €80 billion funding programmes in bonds and bills for both ESM and European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) as of 29 July 2020. …

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Implications of publicly funded health insurance for UHC in LMICs

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Speaker: Dr. Sulakshana Nandi Abstract Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has provided the impetus for the introduction of publicly-funded health insurance (PFHI) schemes especially in many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) with mixed health systems. In many countries these schemes involve “purchasing” of healthcare by governments from the for-profit private health sector. Drawing on my own research …

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Discussion — Lecture 1: The Four Prices of Money

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Welcome to Money and Banking! This session covers Lecture 1: The Four Prices of Money. This lecture provides motivation, context, and themes for the Money and Banking MOOC. Lecture Notes Many of us have taken the course before. In addition to discussing the lecture, we will also introduce ourselves and set our intentions for working …

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